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Victorian demons

by Andrew Smith

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Victorian demons provides the first extensive exploration of largely middle-class masculinities in crisis at the fin de siecle. It analyses how ostensibly controlling models of masculinity became demonised in a variety of literary and medical contexts, revealing the period to be much more ideologically complex than has hitherto been understood, and makes a significant contribution to Gothic scholarship.

Demonology in literatureDiseases in literatureEnglish literatureGothic revival (Literature)HistoryHistory and criticismLiterature and medicineMasculinity in literatureMedicine in literatureMen in literatureEnglish literature, history and criticism, 19th centuryDisease